hank wrote:
Well, I have used that tar command in my script for almost 2 years now and it worked fine until a few months ago. It also works fine on the other 4 raq4 servers we have. And as I said I have tried and bzip2 and cpio as well (and gtar), all with the same result. So I think it is a more complicated problem than simple command syntax.
Shot in the dark - 1. Hardware problems? Maybe a defective SIMM? Or a HD with problems?2. Compromised? Maybe some rootkit altered some process calls that have this side-effect. Run chkrootkit.
HTH Jan Wildeboer